Liverpool Hospital School is a Department of Education School situated within the Children’s Ward. The school provides continuity of education for school aged patients – Kindergarten to Year 12. Patients are able to continue with their learning from their regular school or learn something new to take back to their schools after discharge.
School staff work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team on the ward and staff from both government and non-government schools to provide high quality education and care.
Our vision
At Liverpool Hospital School we believe learning is wellbeing. When students are engaged in learning that is new, they become present in what they are doing. There is no room left for their minds to wander to the unfamiliar sounds of the hospital; the fact that they may be hooked up to a machine; the worry of a pending operation or the pain they may be experiencing. Liverpool Hospital School offers educational experiences that bring the students’ focus back to their learning in a familiar and stimulating environment.
Liverpool Hospital School utilises our unique educational setting to identify and address gaps in literacy and numeracy; to engage students in future ready learning and link that learning to future local careers in health research and technologies.
Our aims
- Students are provided with individualised support to continue learning that is transferrable to their regular school or their future.
- Students are inspired to be life-long learners through interactive learning experiences that ignite their curiosity.
- Students are provided with opportunities to engage in future ready learning activities that build their skills in real-world problem solving, creative and critical thinking, collaboration and communication.
- Teachers are continuous learners who demonstrate high expectations of learning and provide high quality and responsive learning opportunities for a wide range of individual student needs.
- The wider community works in partnership with the school to minimise the effects of hospitalisation on students’ continuity of learning.
- The school celebrates and promotes the diversity of an inclusive community where all belong.
Our beliefs
We believe:
- in equal access to education for all students
- in life-long learning
- that learning is wellbeing
- that learning is for everyone
Our values
As described by the NSW Department of Education, we value:
- Integrity: being consistently honest and trustworthy
- Excellence: striving for the highest personal achievement in all aspects of schooling and individual and community action, work and life-long learning
- Respect: having regard for yourself and others, lawful and just authority and diversity within Australian society and accepting the right of others to hold different or opposing views
- Responsibility: being accountable for your individual and community's actions towards yourself, others and the environment
- Cooperation: working together to achieve common goals, providing support to others and engaging in peaceful resolution of conflict
- Participation: being a proactive and productive individual and group member, having pride in and contributing to the social and economic wealth of the community and the nation
- Care: concern for the wellbeing of yourself and others, demonstrating empathy and acting with compassion
- Fairness: being committed to the principles of social justice and opposing prejudice, dishonesty and injustice
- Democracy: accepting and promoting the rights, freedoms and responsibilities of being an Australian citizen
Outcomes of schooling
Values influence the way students think, speak and behave. There has always been a strong focus on the importance of values in relation to the achievement of the educational goals and outcomes of public schooling. Some of these broad goals include:
- Love of learning
- high standards
- care and respect for self and others
- care and respect for families and communities
- respect for work
- fairness and social justice
- pursuit of excellence
- being active citizens of Australia and the world
- appreciating Australia’s history and multicultural society
Social outcomes
Schooling is also about the future. Our community looks to today’s students to determine the world of tomorrow. Through classrooms and school communities the core values of NSW public schools will contribute to a society that:
- values all people
- assists and empowers individuals from disadvantaged groups to actively pursue improved employment, personal and life opportunities
- contributes to reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- is comfortable with cultural and linguistic diversity
- is compassionate towards others in need
- is aware of its heritage
- develops social cohesion
- empowers individuals to become active participants in the democratic processes of Australian society
- values the contribution of public education to the future of all Australians
- rejects violence, harassment and negative forms of discrimination
- supports peaceful resolution of conflict
